Manfat - (S/T 7")

Here it is: my first post of the UK triad I promised - a long time ago, I know - to do next. The USB-out of my infamous preamp completely crapped out on me for a while there, but I eventually smartened up, got rid of the piece of junk commercial software I was using to rip things, switched to the awesome Audacity, & managed to record from the headphones jack without any further ado. Hopefully, this state of affairs will happily project itself into the foreseeable future.

That's that, & this is the first Manfat 7" from 1994 - 'first' to the best of my knowledge, since I only knew Manfat because of the Doom connection in the first place (namely Bri, who's doing the vocals in this release) & it proved beyond my meager powers to find further info on Manfat. The only things I know for certain are, one, that most of the band went to form John Holmes &, two, that - although the Manfat/Hard To Swallow split 7" (recorded in 1997) is still floating around in a bunch of distros - I only recall seeing this 7" twice: once when I picked it up & then once again at Heart First's trade list. Go bug Florian, then, if you like the sound of it.

That's it - my shortest post ever. I'll only say that I do recommend this 7" rather strongly - it's still crust, but in a nicely adventurous/experimental way. One of my favorite 7"'s, really... Go get it & thanks for reading!

15 comments:

Billy I haven't had a chance to download and listen to this one yet. I did want to take a second though and remind you of how cool I think your blog is. You are always moving forward with this blog, your rips and what you have to say. I appreciate your time and effort, thanx dude.

Axegrinder: thanks for the awesome comment, you made my day! Is there any chance to hook us up with some unheard of ex-yugo punk/HC wonders? I love that scene (including Dead Ideas, where you left a comment some time ago)...

Billy: it's common knowledge that we're not really two different people but rather one is a schizoid offshoot/persona of the other. & since I came in second...

Ah, that's great to know, leon! I did some noise removal b/c there was a lot of hiss (didn't have to do it in the next one I ripped, since the noise there is overpowering, haha!) but tried to keep it modest. The funny part is I had to do noise removal TWICE with Audacity, since the first time introduces artifacts into the recording which the second one removes - weird. But anyway, these are things better left for a tech forum. Glad you all liked the work. (As for the person whose alter ego I embody, there's no vacation scheduled for you - give us a call again in 2009 though!)

Hahaha, no problem justin! Billy shouldn't have even mentioned it - we're all in this together & I'm happy enough to simply contribute to the blog as things stand. Speaking of which, there should be another post tonight!

this bri was one of the singers in the crust band embittered in the early 90s before manfat formed and then later sung in john holmes (orig feat sned on drums & did an album on flat earth recs late 90s) and now sings in a band called goatspeed.

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Here will be posted mostly crust 7"s but there will be some exceptions (hardcore, powerviolence, political grindcore 7"s, ) but the tunes will always be brutal and aggressive. we''ll try to post out of print releases or records from unknown bands and hard to get. we are not the ones who know everything, some records maybe are repressed and available again:if you are in a band, if you run a label and don't want a record posted here or if you see any record that shouldn't be posted,make a comment and the record will be removed. thanx